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Artificial spin ice systems have opened experimental windows into a range of model magnetic systems through the control of interactions among nanomagnet moments. This control has previously been enabled by altering the nanomagnet size and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Susan Kempinger , Yu-Sheng Huang , Paul Lammert , Michael Vogel , Axel Hoffmann , Vincent H. Crespi , Peter Schiffer , Nitin Samarth

Geometrical frustration arised in spin ices leads to fascinating emergent physical properties. Nowadays there is a wide diversity of the artificial structures, mimicking spin ice at the nanoscale and demonstrating some new effects. Most of…

The switching mechanisms in artificial spin ice systems are investigated with focus on shakti and modified shakti lattices. Minimum energy paths are calculated using the geodesic nudged elastic band (GNEB) method implemented with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Vladyslav M. Kuchkin , Unnar B. Arnalds , Hannes Jónsson , Pavel F. Bessarab

The mechanisms of thermally activated magnetization switching in small ferromagnetic particles driven by an external magnetic field are investigated. For low uniaxial anisotropy the spins rotate coherently while for sufficiently large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Nowak , D. Hinzke

For over ten years, arrays of interacting single-domain nanomagnets, referred to as artificial spin ices, have been engineered with the aim to study frustration in model spin systems. Here, we use Fresnel imaging to study the reversal…

The asymptotic behavior of switching time as a function of current for a uniaxial macrospin under the effects of both spin-torque and thermal noise is explored analytically by focusing on its diffusive energy space dynamics. The scaling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 D. Pinna , A. D. Kent , D. L. Stein

In artificial spin ice systems, an interplay of defects and dipolar interactions is expected to play important roles in stabilizing different collective magnetic states. In this work, we investigated the magnetization reversal of individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Neeti Keswani , Ranveer Singh , Yoshikata Nakajima , Sakthi Kumar , Tapobrata Som , Pintu Das

This work makes a theoretical study of the dynamics of emergent elemental excitations in artificial spin ice systems with hexagonal geometry during the magnetic reversion of the system. The magnetic and physical parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alejandra Leon

Over the past few years, the study of magnetization dynamics in artificial spin ices has become a vibrant field of study. Artificial spin ices are ensembles of geometrically arranged, interacting magnetic nanoislands, which display…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Sebastian Gliga , Ezio Iacocca , Olle G. Heinonen

Artificial spin ice (ASI) are arrays on nanoscaled magnets that can serve both as models for frustration in atomic spin ice as well as for exploring new spin-wave-based strategies to transmit, process, and store information. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Sergi Lendinez , Mojtaba T. Kaffash , M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

A kinetic Ising model is analyzed where spin variables correspond to lattice cells with mobile or immobile particles. Introducing additional restrictions for the flip processes according to the n-spin facilitated kinetic Ising model and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Zheng , M. Schulz , S. Trimper

Monte Carlo simulations are used to study the magnetic relaxation of a system of single domain particles with dipolar interactions modeled by a chain of Heisenberg classical spins. We show that the so-called $T\ln(t/\tau_0)$ method can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Oscar Iglesias , Amilcar Labarta

Magnetization reversal in magnetic nanostructures is investigated numerically over time-scales ranging from fast switching processes on a picosecond scale to thermally activated reversal on a microsecond time-scale. A simulation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Hinzke , U. Nowak

We have developed an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm, which accelerates slow Monte Carlo dynamics in quasi-one-dimensional Ising spin systems. The loop algorithm of the quantum Monte Carlo method is applied to the classical spin models with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tota Nakamura

Applied magnetic fields are an important tuning parameter for artificial spin ice (ASI) systems, as they can drive phase transitions between different magnetic ground states, or tune through regimes with high populations of emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 M. Goryca , X. Zhang , J. D. Watts , C. Nisoli , C. Leighton , P. Schiffer , S. A. Crooker

Artificial spin ice has become a valuable tool for understanding magnetic interactions on a microscopic level. The strength in the approach lies in the ability of a synthetic array of nanoscale magnets to mimic crystalline materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-23 Stephen A. Daunheimer , Olga Petrova , Oleg Tchernyshyov , John Cumings

We investigate a model for randomly layered magnets, viz. a three-dimensional Ising model with planar defects. The magnetic phase transition in this system is smeared because static long-range order can develop on isolated rare spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shellie Huether , Ryan Kinney , Thomas Vojta

The interplay of magnetic interactions in chiral multilayer films gives rise to nanoscale topological spin textures, which form attractive elements for next-generation computing. Quantifying these interactions requires several specialized,…

Arrays of coupled nanomagnets have wide-ranging fundamental and practical applications in artificial spin ices, neuromorphic computing and spintronics. However, lacking in these fields are nanomagnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy…

We discuss an Ising spin glass where each $S=1/2$ spin is coupled antiferromagnetically to three other spins (3-regular graphs). Inducing quantum fluctuations by a time-dependent transverse field, we use out-of-equilibrium quantum Monte…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Cheng-Wei Liu , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anders W. Sandvik